The great photographer Inta Ruka has been documenting ordinary life in her native Latvia for decades—since before the tiny Baltic nation gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

The video above is a trailer for a documentary film about her life and work by the Swedish filmmaker Maud Nycander. Click on The Photographer from Riga to see the entire film. I strongly recommend it to anyone who has the least interest in photography or in a profile of a remarkable person. (Hat tip to Jack Clontz).